RE: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
August 31, 2016 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2016 at 6:21 pm by Panatheist.)
I should add this:
An author I very much like is Susan Blackmore. She has had a number of experiences commonly believed to be paranormal, some of them drug-induced, others induced by various forms of meditation. After making a career out of parapsychology she became an atheist. In all of those years she was not able to find evidence of the paranormal that could not be explained in a more direct and easy fashion in a non-supernatural manner.
Like myself she does continue to value her altered states even though she does not attribute them to the supernatural. She has written a large amount of material to account for the value of such experiences as well as more sensible explanations for how they come to exist.
This is an author I have really enjoyed. It is interesting to me that someone who obtained a Ph.D. in parapsychology would become an atheist after twenty years of research. She continues to research and lecture on various related topics but now from a skeptical perspective. You may enjoy reading some of her books and articles or listening to some lectures. I cannot say I agree with everything therein of course, but there is quite a bit to read about her research of the paranormal.
An author I very much like is Susan Blackmore. She has had a number of experiences commonly believed to be paranormal, some of them drug-induced, others induced by various forms of meditation. After making a career out of parapsychology she became an atheist. In all of those years she was not able to find evidence of the paranormal that could not be explained in a more direct and easy fashion in a non-supernatural manner.
Like myself she does continue to value her altered states even though she does not attribute them to the supernatural. She has written a large amount of material to account for the value of such experiences as well as more sensible explanations for how they come to exist.
This is an author I have really enjoyed. It is interesting to me that someone who obtained a Ph.D. in parapsychology would become an atheist after twenty years of research. She continues to research and lecture on various related topics but now from a skeptical perspective. You may enjoy reading some of her books and articles or listening to some lectures. I cannot say I agree with everything therein of course, but there is quite a bit to read about her research of the paranormal.
